Zugg Software :: View topic - A Simple bot for some im sure. ... but im lost what to do...

Novice Joined: 16 Mar 2001 Posts: 38 Location: USA

Hopefully someone can help me out here...
First off i play Medievia.

I want to make a bot that follows a road, stops at intersections, stops for mob warnings, and stops if attacked.

I have a mob warning script already, dont recall who wrote it but love the way it works, i added some sounds to it incase im moving to fast to see the warning...

ANYWAY, exit prompt on road looks something like this..

Exits
NORTH - A Well-Traveled Road
EAST - A Dark Forest
SOUTH - A Well-Traveled Road
WEST - A Dark Forest

If i start walking north, i just want to keep walking as long as long as there are only 2 directions (of the road) to follow.

Example, was going north and exit shows...

Exit
NORTH - A Dark Forest
EAST - A Well-Traveled Road
SOUTH - A Well-Traveled Road
WEST - A Dark Forest

I would like the bot to be smart enuff to follow the road East and not try to turn around and go South.

If i come to an intersection,

Exits
NORTH - A Well-Traveled Road
EAST - A Gravel Path
SOUTH - A Well-Traveled Road
WEST - A Gravel Path

I want the bot to stop until i select a direction.

I also would like to manualy stop the bot if i need to.

Sounds impossible to me, but im SURE someone out there knows how to do it or already has done it....

Help....

PLEASE!

MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

I doubt that anyone would find this easy. It sounds to me like a fairly advanced bot. Unless someone has shown interest in this project through private messages, you'll probably have to continue moving your characters yourself to keep them on a road.

It doesn't sound impossible, but I think it will require a significant amount of work and skill. Good luck!

Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 3:38 pm

i dont think its hard, but i dont play your mud so it wont be tested, dont blame me if i typoed or forgot bracket somewhere please?
decide how you start the bot, through alias, numpad keys or maybe fancy arrow buttons.
a button starting bot northwards would do something like
#VAR roadbot NORTH;#VAR grabname 1;glance
oh yeah, use them to nudge bot in the right direction at intersections too.
anything involving bot i usually put in separate class, enabling only when it has to work, just in case some wizard decides to bot-check you by echoing messages.
#TR (^Exits$) {#IF (@roadbot!="") {#T+ roadbot;#VAR movecheck 0}} {} 7
#TR (^NORTH - (*)$) {#IF (@grabname=1) {#IF (@roadbot=NORTH) {#VAR roadname %1;#VAR grabname 0;glance}} {#IF ((@roadbot!=SOUTH) AND (@roadname=%1)) {#VAR roadbot NORTH;#ADD movecheck 1}}} {roadbot} 7
#TR (^EAST - (*)$) {#IF (@grabname=1) {#IF (@roadbot=EAST) {#VAR roadname %1;#VAR grabname 0;glance}} {#IF ((@roadbot!=WEST) AND (@roadname=%1)) {#VAR roadbot EAST;#ADD movecheck 1}}} {roadbot} 7
#TR (^SOUTH - (*)$) {#IF (@grabname=1) {#IF (@roadbot=SOUTH) {#VAR roadname %1;#VAR grabname 0;glance}} {#IF ((@roadbot!=NORTH) AND (@roadname=%1)) {#VAR roadbot SOUTH;#ADD movecheck 1}}} {roadbot} 7
#TR (^WEST - (*)$) {#IF (@grabname=1) {#IF (@roadbot=WEST) {#VAR roadname %1;#VAR grabname 0;glance}} {#IF ((@roadbot!=EAST) AND (@roadname=%1)) {#VAR roadbot WEST;#ADD movecheck 1}};#T- roadbot;#IF (@movecheck=0) {#ECHO "bot stopped, no exits found"};#IF (@movecheck=1) {@roadbot};#IF (@movecheck>1) {#ECHO "bot stopped, intersection"};#IF (@movecheck!=1) {#VAR roadbot ""}} {roadbot} 7
bot runs until it can find the road and turns off manually with #VAR roadbot ""
by my design it first does glance and grabs road name, then sends glance again and starts moving (replace glance with appropriate command for your mud, look, exits, whatever and move commands, i used uppercase full, but it might be lowercase and/or short, replace as appropriate)